Docker Job Trends in South Wales

Docker
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 14 41
Rank change year-on-year -45 +27 -5
Permanent jobs citing Docker 12 37 51
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 1.22% 10.95% 4.51%
As % of the System Software category 18.46% 66.07% 36.17%
Number of salaries quoted 12 37 44
10th Percentile £50,300 - £24,875
25th Percentile £55,723 £31,250 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £53,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.22% +11.58% -22.76%
75th Percentile £78,790 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile - £72,631 £74,250
Wales median annual salary £70,079 £53,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +32.22% +11.58% -20.83%

All System Software Skills
South Wales

Docker falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 65 56 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 6.61% 16.57% 12.48%
Number of salaries quoted 54 55 111
10th Percentile £28,000 - £24,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £28,290
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +28.40% -20.75%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,000 £67,500
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £40,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +35.80% -10.00%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Docker relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Docker job vacancy trend in South Wales

Docker
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in South Wales over the 6 months to 6 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Docker in South Wales

Docker
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 6 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff -31 7 £73,801 +127.08% 7
Bridgend - 3 £56,631 -
Newport -26 2 £52,500 -10.64% 4
Docker
Wales

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) AWS
3 6 (50.00%) dbt
4 5 (41.67%) PaaS
5 4 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
5 4 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (33.33%) GCP
5 4 (33.33%) Pulumi
6 3 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 3 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (25.00%) Sentry
7 2 (16.67%) Azure API Management
7 2 (16.67%) Datadog
7 2 (16.67%) GitHub
7 2 (16.67%) SaaS
8 1 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (8.33%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (33.33%) Redis
3 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (8.33%) MySQL
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
1 3 (25.00%) JMeter
2 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (16.67%) git-flow
2 2 (16.67%) Locust
3 1 (8.33%) Gradle
3 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) Maven
3 1 (8.33%) MSTest
3 1 (8.33%) Selenium
3 1 (8.33%) SpecFlow
3 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Test Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Django
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) Gherkin
2 2 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) CSS3
3 1 (8.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) HTML5
3 1 (8.33%) JPA
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) React
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) Spring
3 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (8.33%) Spring MVC
3 1 (8.33%) Spring Security
3 1 (8.33%) Vue
3 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
1 4 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (58.33%) Agile
4 7 (58.33%) Containerisation
4 7 (58.33%) Observability
5 6 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (33.33%) Clean Code
6 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
7 3 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven
7 3 (25.00%) FinOps
7 3 (25.00%) Migration
7 3 (25.00%) Open Source
7 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (25.00%) Prototyping
7 3 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
7 3 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 2 (16.67%) QA
1 2 (16.67%) WCAG
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Terraform
2 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Copilot
4 2 (16.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Google
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft